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ROTARY CLUB TALK
REV. MR. FORD ON TOC H. WORK
COMMON AIMS
The Rev. F. E. ("Boba") Ford, the Too H. Padre, gave an interest- ing address to the Hongkong Rotary Club at their weakly timn at the Gloucestor Building yester, day, at which Hon. Mr. S. W. Tao presided.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1933.
divided nation from nation, did PILGRIMAGE TO EAST-
most effectively lossen the horizontal barriors which, had so bitterly divided class from class within each nation.
do not
Lots of people think the spirit of giving, of service and of com- radeship is perhaps the only thing far which the War could be said to have been worth while. know that that is true, but at any rate the lealers of Toe H. after the War felt it was at, and when they came back to the post war days, they found disillusion- ments and one of these was that they found they were losing that! #pirit which they had learned "out there."
AFIFI TEMPLE OF NOBLES OF
MYSTIC SHRINE
A pilgrimage will be made to the Orient this year by the Afif Temple of Nobles of Mystic Shrine, which has its headquarters at the Masonic Temple in Tacoma, Washington. Coremonios are being hold in Japan, China and the Philippines, although it is doubtful if a core monial can be held in Hongkong.
The Shriners maintain, through- out the United States, a number of hospitals for crippled children and enormously, valuable work has been Servico of the Human Race, donó since the inception of the scheme in 1922. In the ten years The great aim of Toe H. in to the Shriners' hospitals have been in Bishop of Victoria (the Rt. Revd strike blows at all that keeps men, existence they have cared for 25,000
from prejudiced misunderstanding crippled children.
Guests present who were intro- duced by Rotarians wore tho
Ronald Hall). Capt. Burnett, Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, Mesara, J. T. Asquith (London), Harry Chappell (who in travelling the East with the Roy. Mt. Ford), E. P. Howard, and T. Ramsay,
The Chairman stated that a lotter had been received from Sir. William Hornell, apologising for his absence..
Tho record of oach other, and to bind men, after a decade speaks for itself. together in this cause by the tie Eleven hospitals and four mobile aro maintained by the of common service. That common unita service noW can take a higher Shriners. form than in the days of war.
An Illustrated booklet received It can be the service of the human from Mr. Thomas B. Wilson. race. You will find men in Toc Rajab, representative of the Aff H. all round the world pledged Temple in Hongkong, reveals some to do that thing. It is a very remarkable instances of the great ideal, so high an ideal that
wonderful work done by the many of you may think it is hard-
organisation. ly worth pursuing, but wo puraus it by very simple means. We pro cend by pledging our members to be "good mixers" and be givers rather than getters. So you'll find, in any branch or group, real good collection of men, drawn from all ranks of society, You will find them meeting together; having nothing in common when they first begin, but gradually they begin to learn each other's point of view.
picked team of graduate football Last week at San Francisco a players from western Universition and colleges defeated a similar tcum from the Eastern States. The game is an annual event in Kezar stadium, and is played for the benefit of the Shrine hospital for crippled children. A crowd of 50,000 benefited the hospitals by attending the game.
Sir William Shenton,-On my return from Swatow last Thura- day I received a very welcome let ter from the President of our Club, Mr. Ta'o, congratulating me on the very high honour His Majesty the King had recently conferred upon me, an honour which I very much appreciate and which I regard as one of the groot milestones in my life. We in Hongkong are more fortunate than the people at Home for many rea- sone, one of them being that at Home they are very straggled and
Breaking Down Class Barriers. parted, but here in Hongkong we are a small community. We live
We are going in the direction of together in close community and our higher ideal of conquering and it took him six months are meeting each other continual- ly. We meet each other not only in the hate of the world, of breaking settle down.
our private lives but in our busi- noos, and a very close brotherhood Kтows up between us. We carry on year after year and gradually grow older together, and when something comes into one's life such bas come into mine recently It is a matter of great pleasure to feel that one has one's own frienda round one, to join in the honours and congratulate one On such occasions as the present. I want to thank you all very much indeed for that letter which I appreciate very much and which will go down and be kept among my records,
Referring to the forthcoming dinner of the Club, to be held on Saturday, Mr. P. S. Cassidy stat ed that it was probable that at least 20 members of the Canton Club would be present as their quests, but only 32 members of the Hongkong Rotary Club had de cided to attend. Forty had in formed the committee that they would be unable to attend. He appealed for na large an atten, dance as possible.
down the barriers which sprang
The Shriners are due in Hong- kong on January 27, en route to Manila.
to
up after the war between class Continuing, the Rev. Mr. Ford and class. The spirit of comrade-anid.-This has worked out in
ship in Toc H. would not be hundreds of cases in all parts of worth a brass farthing unless it India during the past seven years is based on the same spirit of to the great advantage of the Ind common service as in the War. I coming out from Home for the That is why every member of Toe first time, II. also pledges himself to do some act of service for his fellow men. The service we can do in the world is probably of a higher order than that which bound those men to- gether during the War, because it in a service to humanity and not
only a service to a nation.
My three years' experience in India antisfies me that there is plenty of scope for service, which finds expression in the hundred and ens little jobs of work done by men for their fellow men. We have twenty-one branches and groups in India and they are working extremely well. Some of the jobs of service they are do- ing are really very fine. I do not want to tell you of them in a spirit of boastfulness, but I com- mend them you because what- ever you may think of the ultimate end of Toc H's, higher ideals you must agree that the means by which we are trying to get there are of definite and immediate civic value, and the jobs of the Tec II. members do help the world | along,
In No Sense Competitive.
One of the strong points of Toc
II. is never to compete with exfat- Ing organisations, but to help them. In India we have seamen missions at work. We go there and tell them, we have no money with which to help them, but we have some "Man Power" and that if they wish to have any help in the running of the mission. Toc H. will be only ton pleased to lead A hand. In this way We have been able to help very materially in the organisation of whist drives, sociala and other netivi- tics. Toc H. men get in touch with young apprentices and young officers from ships and take them to their homes, bungalows and chummeries and strive to that the shore people are not for- getful of those who bring them things in their ships.
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Rev. Mr. Ford's Mission. The Rov. Mr. Ford said.--I think it is generally known to al- most all of you that Mr. Chappell and I are touring round part of the world in the interests of Toc H. I would like you to realise, that Mr. Chappell has been A.D.C. to the Rev. "Tabby" Clayton, the Founder Padre of Toe H. during the past year, and he joined me in Singapore last July. I have been Padr for Toc II. in India for the nast three years, and after live weeks in Malaya we went together to visit the Toc, ho merived. The East can be an have no money but I can get
II. family in Australin and New Zealand where we found it in a very flourishing condition. Now we have come to Hongkong, and from here shall go to Shanghai, and further north, and we hope to go to Japan.
Problems of the East.
Work Amongst Boys. There is one very fine piece of work in connexion with children and that concerns a very interest- lug Boys' Club in which Toc II. has assisted In Bombay. One One of the great problems in day, a very fino young Indinn ask- India as well as other places outed for financial assistance for a East concerns our young folk club he was trying to get on to coming from Home. It is a pro- its feet for young Indian boys in blem of giving the young man a
the Bombay aluma. He came welcome of the right sort when across a Toc H. man who said,
the
extremely lonely place for young man arriving from Home for the first time. He can get into any number of difficulties with out any difficulty at all, and Toc II. in India in drug much to help in that way.
youngsters are going out and give them what advice they want as to the conditions in the East, and letters of commendation, and they also write to Toe I. in the East, informing them of their approach, They are met all along the line. At the end of the journey they are met not by an official but by a fellow man.
gave an
fellows who will give time and help in running games, etc." The Indian spoke to the Toc H. men about his work and they offered to assist. Two or three men go there several evenings a week and help in running the Club by or- ganising games, boxing, etc. The good work done by the Club Is tremendous, and it has put into these boys the spirit which in the first element of good citizenship, which they would not get else- where, for many of them have re- ceived no education at all.
Our mission in the Far East in He often does not realise what to see if we can make any start Toc H. is doing for him because for the movement in the big cen- it is doing it so quietly. We have tros out here, ho greatly wel- a very efficient overseas office in come this opportunity to address London which is in touch with your Rotary Club and try to say most of the bly firma, which, if I a little about Toc H--what it might use a phrase, export white stands for and what it will try and, labour to their offices in the East. do in Hongkong if established. They hear in London when such The Rev. Mr. Ford quoted an-
It is always a pleasure to talk
other example in which two al- to Rotary Clubs about Too H., for,
lors, members of Toc II., and beon Rotary and Toc II, have very much
invited to the Club and there in common-they both tend to
they, to the astonishment of wards fellowship and sacrifice be
crowds of onlookers, played the fore self-and we find, I am thank-
most abaurd games with this rab- ful to say, in many parts of the
ble of Indian boys. The sailors world that Rotary and Toc H.
looked upon this as a great favour work together in close co-opera-
and returned the compliment by tion. You Rotariana are limited
getting permission for twenty of in your membership by your rules
these poor Indian boys to be A Practical Example, and tend to have more senfor mon
shown over the ship on which they In your ranks. We tend to go Rev. Mr. Ford then
were serving. "That,” said Mr. rather for the juniors, although example of two men going out Ford, is one of my most delight- we do not want to exclude the East for the first time. The first ful experiences of Toc H. in In- sunlors. It is a movement for had been in touch with the Toc dia."
The speaker concluded by say young people but it is not a ques-II. at home and was given letters tion of year.
of commendation. He was meting"Toc H. means a great deal all along the line by members of to some men, and it means almost The Spirit of the War Days.
Toc f, and when he landed at overything to quito
a fow moll, Toc H. looks back to the dark Rangoon was greeted by a little and I am quito convinced Toc H. days of the world war, and Ands group of active members. and will mean quite a lot to a number a light shining out of the darkness taken to the home of one of them. of people in Hongkong."
There he learned the "ropes" and Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy proposed in the spirit which the
to the a vote of thanks to Rev. Mr. Ford goney called out. I was the received an introduction spirit of being propared to give nearest unit when he went up and said that the address must rather than to get. If you look country. He found the place very prove to be un eye-opener for back on the war, I think you must friendly. The other young man many. "I have had some acquain- agree that one really good thing could have got these lettern of tance with this work before and which came out of it and this is commendation, but. "had to leave realise what Toc H. is doing," truo of all armies on both sides in a hurry." The result was that anid Mr. Bellamy. "I visited, was the spirit of service and he came out and found the East once or twice, the original Talbot it is wonderful to Auerlice. From this was born a rather friendless place, with House, and now sense of comradeship between no one to meet him on the way, think that the work started in then. It
comradeship and when he got to Rangoon felt there in Poperinghe is being per- which, though it could not break more lonely than ever. All he got petunted by such run as the Rev. that great vortical barrier which was instructions from his office, Mr. Ford." (Applause).
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